Jan - Looking backwards to look forwards
This workshop is all about thinking past the last year and noticing times when we honoured our own needs, desires and limits as well as times when we didn't. It will help us to notice areas in our lives where we have work to do, and those where we are succeeding. 

Feb - Self consent myths
This workshop is all about the concept of self consent and what gets in the way. We will get into the beliefs and patterns that stop us from connecting with and expressing our needs and boundaries.

Mar - Building self consent by knowing your zone of influence
We all have choices and constraints in our lives. This session is all about working out the areas of your life that you’re not presently exercising choices in effectively. We will talk about the role of emotions, body sensations and thoughts in guiding you towards greater choice.

Apr - Building self consent by finding yes/no in your body
Our bodies often have answers that our brains haven’t yet recognised. In this session we will talk through some things that we know are ‘yes’ and ‘no’ for us, and then use those examples to focus on what yes and no feels like to us in our bodies. We will also use gestures and positions to enhance our alignment and communication with our nervous system. 

May - Building self consent by developing greater interoception
Interoception is our ability to sense sensations, emotions and bodily needs. This session is all about exercises to become more attuned to those signals. 

Jun - Introducing interoception
Interoception is the the perception of sensations from inside of our bodies, including our felt sense of organ function like heart beat, breathing, hunger, fullness, and our autonomic nervous system activity related to emotions.  Being able to identify and name emotions and sensations in our bodies helps us to make choices grounded in our felt senses. 

Jul - Building self consent by addressing attunement disruptors
Attunement to our bodies signals is a key part of the work we do on self consent. That means getting up close and personal with the things that disrupt our ability to remain attuned. It could be urgency, strong emotion, power relationships or something else. We will work on finding what has outpaced your self consent and working out a plan for managing these attunement disruptors.for managing these attunement disruptors.

Jul - Building self consent by working with the moment of choice
In July we will learn all about the moment of choice & how to have more of them! We will work on expanding the space for growth between stimulus and response to give us more flexibility & opportunity to move towards what we really want.

Aug - Building self consent by separating danger from discomfort
In this workshop we will talk about how our nervous systems often react to danger and discomfort in exactly the same way, especially when they relate to problematic patterns or events from the past. We will talk about the importance of discerning between danger and discomfort so that we don’t conflate the two and always avoid uncomfortable but potentially growthful experiences. 

Sept - Building self consent by planning for emotional dysregulation
In this workshop we will talk about planning for distress. Sometimes when we are distressed we make poor decisions that 

Oct - Building self consent with mindful moments
One of the most important parts of working with self consent is recognising that now is the moment to be acknowledging and acting on what you really want. This workshop is all about incorporating informal moments of mindfulness into your day. 

Nov - Building self consent with self enquiry - finding the right question
What's in a question? This session is all about returning to the resilient edge of risk and finding the right question to ask yourself. The right question will probably be hard to think about, even if you know some of the answer. 

Dec - Building self consent with interpersonal skills.
Even when we know what we want, asking for it can be hard. This workshop is all about techniques to help you ask for what you want and to say no. These are DBT inspired interpersonal effectiveness skills, and they really really work!